The Blue Thunder Mini Cam from Digital Integrated Systems is so
portable and easy to set up that you no longer have to give up
video mail or videoconferencing when you hit the road. All you do
to get high-resolution video or still images is clip it to a laptop
display and plug its cable in to a USB port. You can use Microsoft
NetMeeting, which comes with recent versions of Windows, for
videoconferences. The tiny camera also comes bundled with the
VP-Eye suite of communication and video applications that even let
you control Blue Thunder remotely via the Internet for video
surveillance ($35, www.dism.com, 604-227-0177).